Whether or not I know enough about linguistics or statistics to understand the deeper implications of what choosing a method like topic modeling means is beside the point. The fact is, as libraries increasingly become home to large amounts of digitized text and interest in digital projects grows, researchers at our institutions may look to us as potential resources when engaged in large-scale textual analysis. I would argue that it behooves those of us who are willing to familiarize ourselves with some of the approaches, like topic modeling, that are common in digital scholarship.